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<blockquote data-quote="Felon" data-source="post: 4322855" data-attributes="member: 8158">Like Reaper, Burn Notice is very episodic and formulaic, and having participated in a couple of Reaper threads in this forum, I'm not surprised to see Burn Notice get raves here as well. On the basis of the first half-dozen or so episodes I watched, my impression is that it's a charming throwback to shows like Rockford Files or Magnum PI, with a protagonist who keeps his own hours and winds up spending them sticking his neck way out for people he just met with little prospect of getting any kind of compensation for his lfe-endangering efforts. And of course, these good friends he made over the last hour disappear from his life right after the coda--even the women who he falls head over heels in love with (&quot;it just wouldn't work out&quot;). The hero comes off like a scoundrel, but you know he will ultimately make the selfless, heroic choice--even to the extent of keeping his karma clean by executing some overly complex scam to deal with the bad guys when he could just as easily exterminate them with a well-placed bullet or bomb. So basically, it's all the fun and unpredictability of rooting for the bad guy with none of the guilt, plus&nbsp; the comfort of knowing that the show's premise won't change on you because the hero's actions always result with him managing to just break even somehow.Bottom line: cute, nostalgic show with interchangeable episodes, comfy in its unambitiousness.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Felon, post: 4322855, member: 8158"] Like Reaper, Burn Notice is very episodic and formulaic, and having participated in a couple of Reaper threads in this forum, I'm not surprised to see Burn Notice get raves here as well. On the basis of the first half-dozen or so episodes I watched, my impression is that it's a charming throwback to shows like Rockford Files or Magnum PI, with a protagonist who keeps his own hours and winds up spending them sticking his neck way out for people he just met with little prospect of getting any kind of compensation for his lfe-endangering efforts. And of course, these good friends he made over the last hour disappear from his life right after the coda--even the women who he falls head over heels in love with ("it just wouldn't work out"). The hero comes off like a scoundrel, but you know he will ultimately make the selfless, heroic choice--even to the extent of keeping his karma clean by executing some overly complex scam to deal with the bad guys when he could just as easily exterminate them with a well-placed bullet or bomb. So basically, it's all the fun and unpredictability of rooting for the bad guy with none of the guilt, plus the comfort of knowing that the show's premise won't change on you because the hero's actions always result with him managing to just break even somehow. Bottom line: cute, nostalgic show with interchangeable episodes, comfy in its unambitiousness. [/QUOTE]

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